Good luck man! get that thing goin!
when i had mine built and was testing it i thought id blew it for sure a couple of times
First was when i turned it on for the first time. ive got it upside down on a couple 2x4's looking at the tubes.. c'mon. c'mon wheres the glow? ok well at this point im ready to stick my hands in a live amp so i have every light on within a 5 mile radius so i think. well maybe its just too bright. turn the lights off. flip the switch on the power strip i use to do this sort of thing and nothing! wtf ok now im getting worried. my fuse isint blown and i have no glow.
DOH !! the power switch on the amp! it must be in the off position! flip the switch on the amp, flip the switch on the power strip, say a couple of prayers and HA we have glowing filaments!
now comes the worst part. I test it all out and everything is just great. Now its hooked up to my halfway fixed Au517,and some old bose interaudio 1000's with no woofer surrounds and our dvdp, ok now ive got the sweet whispers and before i hooked it all up i measured the resistance on them, i figured that the position measuing the most resistance will be the low volume position. assuming this i pop in a cd that i know has a track that starts out kinda soft, just to be sure. well it plays and i can hear it. barely.. i turn the volume knobs every which way and it doesnt change.. ok this cant be good. DOH!! you got the selector switch on the wrong input dummy!
ok fixed that problem. discovered there is some leakage in the selector switch though but its pretty un noticable so all is well.
Back to playing music. now ive got it ready to go, got my hand on the speaker selector knob on the sansui *just incase* thank god i did, i Sloowly start turning the knob BAM!!!!!!!! holy shi* bout near blew whats left of the speakers out! full volume! lol.
DOH!! i measured the resitance on the stock post, Ooohh. the lowest resistance is the low setting. Now ya tell me! Finally i get it working. Ahh. if something didnt go wrong i might have been worried!
And that folks concludes my DOH!! diy story for this project.